Data Center
Silicon Bakery - How Intensified Will the AI Infra Race Be? Behind: Intel's Capital Raising, Nvidia's AI Funding Plan, Microsoft's Bet on Indigenous Chips And More...
The AI infrastructure race intensifies as Intel raises capital, Nvidia builds a massive financing ecosystem, and Microsoft advances custom AI chips. Together, they signal a shift toward a broader AI supply chain powered by chips, capital, and scalable compute infrastructure.
Results Review - Microchip Beats Q1 Estimates as Data Center and Defense Growth Accelerate
Microchip delivered a clear Q1 FY2027 beat and issued Q2 guidance substantially above expectations. Shares rose sharply following the release, consistent with a reset in near-term earnings expectations rather than revenue alone.
Result Review - Western Digital Beats Q4 Expectations as Gross Margin Reaches 54.4%
Western Digital delivered a Q4 FY2026 beat, with the clearest upside in profitability rather than revenue. Management said it expects gross margin to improve for many quarters, supported by pricing, higher-capacity drives and lower cost per TB.
Result Review - Sandisk’s Q4 Beat, How Much Was Structural Growth?
Sandisk delivered another unusually large beat in fiscal Q4. The results were not purely a datacenter story: management attributed roughly two-thirds of the sequential revenue increase to higher pricing and only one-third to volume.
Results Review - Astera Labs Beats - Tailwind for AI Hardware Yet Again? 3Q2026 Guidance Surpasses Consensus by 32%
Astera Labs’ Q2 results exceeded expectations, while Q3 guidance implied further acceleration as Scorpio ramps ahead of schedule. The next tests are customer breadth, revenue-mix changes and whether operating leverage can offset lower gross margin.
Results Review - Arista’s Q2 Beat Was Strong, Its Q3 Guidance Was Even Stronger
Arista Networks delivered an strong Q2, beating expectations across revenue, earnings and profitability while issuing a Q3 outlook well above Wall Street forecasts. Shares jumped nearly 10% in after-hours trading following the release.
Results Review - Caterpillar, big beat, once again confirmed data center strength
Caterpillar just reported second-quarter 2026 results this morning (August 4) — and this is a genuinely enormous beat, with the company crossing $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time in its history - partly confirming the huge demand of power generation in data center.
Results Review - Bloom Energy, record 2Q2026, "Without power, chips are just inventories"
Bloom Energy Shares Soar on Back of AI Power Demand post 2Q2026 results. "Without power, chips are just inventories". Could this company be the power-layer behind AI infrastructure?
Volts to Intelligence - Meta to Build First Data Center in Canada, Expanding Global Fleet
Meta Platforms Inc. will invest around $10 billion to build its first data center in Canada as the company expands its infrastructure to support its artificial intelligence ambitions.
Volts to Intelligence - Data centre electricity use surged in 2025, even with tightening bottlenecks driving a scramble for solutions
Summary: A report from IEA shows that data center electricity use surged in 2025, turning power access into one of the most important constraints on the AI boom. The AI trade has usually been framed around chips, models and capital. But the International Energy Agency’s latest report points to
